School District's Use of Worker Visa Program Draws Scrutiny

Texas District Allegedly Exploited H-1B Program in Recruiting Teachers From Overseas.

Federal agencies investigate the Garland Independent School District in eastern Texas for allegedly exploiting the H-1B program in its recruitment of teachers from overseas. WSJ's Ana Campoy joins Lunch Break's Tanya Rivero with the details. Photo: Cooper Neill for The Wall Street Journal

GARLAND, Texas—As this city outside Dallas turned heavily Hispanic over the past decade, its school district hired foreign teachers like Bernardo Montes-Rodríguez, a Colombian, with the promise of a green card.

Now Mr. Montes and dozens of other teachers are uncertain whether they will be able to permanently settle in the U.S., as federal agencies investigate the Garland Independent School District for allegedly exploiting the worker...